whih patch should I run?

whih patch should I run?

[Andrew Cagney]

Hello,

To ask a silly question.  Which version of patch should I be using?  The
diffs for going between gas 950620 and 950704 contained entries of the
form:

---
diff -u -r --new-file --show-function-line=^[A-Za-z_]
/cygint/s1/users/raeburn/offsite/snap/new/../old/gas-950627/ld/testsuite/
ld-versados/t1.ld ./ld/testsuite/ld-versados/t1.ld
---
/cygint/s1/users/raeburn/offsite/snap/new/../old/gas-950627/ld/testsuite/ld-
versados/t1.ld   Wed Jun 21 10:15:05 1995
+++ ./ld/testsuite/ld-versados/t1.ld    Mon Jul  3 14:35:18 1995
@@ -278,4 +278,4 @@ SECTIONS
 .PWRV      = 0xfeedface;
 */
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
---

and and I've found that the versions of patch that I've tried (2.0 and
2.1 on SunOS and NetBSD) and 2.1 barf because of a `malformed patch'. 
Is there a newer version of patch that I should be using that saves this
need to handle diffs like the above by hand?

Any help appreciated on this tickler ...

			regards, Andrew

Re: whih patch should I run?

[Ken Raeburn]

   From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@highland.com.au>
   Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:43:56 +1000 (EST)


   Is there a newer version of patch that I should be using that saves this
   need to handle diffs like the above by hand?

If you find one, I'd like to hear about it.

The version on my system doesn't deal too well with file names that
are found in multiple directories (e.g., ChangeLog) either.